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		dantyti on May 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fall of the Berlin Wall on Usenet (1989) some bold claims here, could you please link your sources/documents? > sought to withdraw completely from Germany, if it became a neutral country like Switzerland or Austria this bargain didn't work out too well for Czechoslovakia.

Wildgoose on May 15, 2023 [–]

To be fair, Czechoslovakia was part of the Warsaw Pact. The USSR withdrew from Austria in return for Austria becoming a neutral country. I presume the commenter is suggesting that the same approach would have worked for Germany.

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